Fast forward three years later, and we are back in the same predicament, only now it&39;s based on whether people are hearing the word &39;Yanny&39; or &39;Laurel&39; in a soundclip that has gone viral this week.

Considered the internet&39;s "new dress" this web war began when a woman named Cloe Feldman posted a video on her Instagram story, simply asking "What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel.

Her four-second long clip has had 6-million views and 26,000 retweets.

Even celebrities have taken up the challenge and have given their interpretations of the audio.

The controversy caused Ellen DeGeneres to stop her show in order to ask people what they hear.

DeGeneres hears Laurel.

Literally everything at my show just stopped to see if people hear Laurel or Yanny. I hear Laurel. https://t.co/efWRw1Gj0L

Not to be a total nerd, but this is a frequency debate. Everyone will hear something different depending on the highs and lows they’re lacking. The real question is, “How’s your Hearing?” Btw...I hear laurel. Lol. YannyorLaurelhttps://t.co/q8IWJfcYgi

The New York Times reported that Dr Jody Kreiman, a principal investigator at the voice perception laboratory at the University of California, said this week that “the acoustic patterns for the utterance are midway between those for the two words.”

She told the New York Times that: “The energy concentrations for Ya are similar to those for La.”